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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what direction was the sound that Dara and Sarun heard coming?

2. What else happened to Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime?

3. What does the man who talks soothingly to the baby look like?

4. How many men jump out of the ambulance when it arrives?

5. In what country had the author of the book grown up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two important events happened in Southeast Asia in 1975?

2. What do Sarun and his family do after their first breakfast in the camp?

3. Cambodia's history dated back how many years to the building of what?

4. Who is Jantu?

5. The author of this book left what university in what year to return to Thailand and help the refugees?

6. Why does Dara's family decide to travel to the refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border?

7. What does Jantu make?

8. What team does Sarun join and why?

9. What does Jantu reveal to Dara that was hidden by a palm fronds?

10. What are the basic rations refugee families receive and what do they do when they first arrive at camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. What huge undertaking did Nea and Dara do without telling Sarun?

2. How did Dara get Sarun to ask for the special pass to Khao I Dang?

3. Why couldn't Sarun go along with Nea and Dara to the hospital? What did that foreshadow?

4. Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

.1. Who went to see Sarun at the military demonstration and who remained at the camp? Why?

2. What were Jantu's comments about the speech that she and Dara heard over the loudspeakers at the base camp? Do you agree with her? Do you think Jantu or Dara was the true heroine of the book?

3. What had happened during the 10 years after Dara and her family and Nea and her family had been at the border? Who had married? How many children?

Essay Topic 3

1. Describe Dara's job in the kitchen. What was the cook like?

2. Where did the cook take Dara after she had worked in the kitchen a while? What was she told to do there? What dis she disapprove of that the women were doing?

3. How was Dara re-united with her familyl?

4. Choose two of the above to write on.

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